A shape-space-based approach to tracking myocardial borders and quantifying regional left-ventricular function applied in Echocardiography

IEEE Transactions on Medical Imaging

Volumn 21, Issue 3, 2002, Pages 226-238

  Jacob, Gary ^a   Noble, J Alison ^a   Behrenbruch, Christian ^a   Kelion, Andrew D ^a   Banning, Adrian P ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Cardiac left ventricular motion; Echocardiography; Nonrigid motion; Ultrasound image analysis

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; IMAGE ANALYSIS; PERFORMANCE; TRACKING (POSITION); TWO DIMENSIONAL; ULTRASONICS;

APICAL INFERIOR; DELINEATIONS; DYNAMIC SNAKE APPROACH; ENDOCARDIUM; EPICARDIAL BOUNDARIES; LEFT VENTRICULAR FUNCTION; MYOCARDIAL BORDERS; REGIONAL HEART FUNCTION; SHAPE SPACE BASED APPROACH;

ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; COMPARATIVE STUDY; COMPUTER ASSISTED DIAGNOSIS; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; ECHOGRAPHY; ELASTICITY; HEART; HEART CONTRACTION; HEART INFARCTION; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE FUNCTION; HUMAN; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; METHODOLOGY; MOVEMENT (PHYSIOLOGY); PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; STATISTICAL MODEL;

ALGORITHMS; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; ELASTICITY; HEART; HUMANS; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MODELS, CARDIOVASCULAR; MODELS, STATISTICAL; MOVEMENT; MYOCARDIAL CONTRACTION; MYOCARDIAL INFARCTION; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; VENTRICULAR DYSFUNCTION, LEFT;

EID: 0036489380     PISSN: 02780062     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/42.996341     Document Type: Article

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